Re: -lX11

[Justin Megawarne <solitude@kholmes.dhis.net>]

And Kreaped Ripping Reaper bestowed upon us all:
> 
> hi.. i tried to compile something that needs -lX11 but gives me an error that says i dont have it... 
> i'm using woody :)
> error is here--------
> 
> [kreaper@kreaper:~/ ]$  gcc -lX11 -lm -o xroy xroy.c
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> 
> [kreaper@kreaper:~ ]$ dpkg -l *xlib6g-dev*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name             Version          Description
> +++-================-================-================================================
> ii  xlib6g-dev       3.3.6-6          include files and libraries for X client develop
> 
> 
> [kreaper@kreaper:~ ]$ ls -la /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Apr 21 00:24 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so -> libX11.so.6.1
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Apr 21 00:24 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 -> libX11.so.6.1
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     uucp      2532951 Mar 15 10:04 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1
> 
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try gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib etcetc.
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